O Pioneers!
, by
Willa Cather
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"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman," writes
in
The country is America; the woman is Alexandra Bergson, a fiercely independent young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father’s farm in Nebraska. A model of emotional strength, courage, and resolve, Alexandra fights long and hard to transform her father’s patch of raw, wind-blasted prairie into a highly profitable business.
A gripping saga of love, murder, greed, failure, and triumph, O Pioneers! vividly portrays the hardships of prairie life. Above all, it champions the belief that hard work is the surest road to personal fulfillment. Described upon publication in
The New York Times
as “American in the best sense of the word,”
celebrates the men and women who struggled to build a nation that is both compelling and contradictory.
Chris Kraus
is the author of
Aliens & Anorexia
,
I Love Dick
, and the forthcoming novel,
Torpor
. She is co-editor of
Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotexte Reader
, and edits Semiotexte Native Agents, a series of mostly female underground fiction.